Damsel: Reef fish (damselfish) data
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Damselfish

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Reef fish (damselfish) data

Description

Two data sets on Dascyllus trimaculatus (three-spot damselfish), one on the distribution of settlement densities to empty anemones across time and space, the other on survival (recruitment) of arriving settlers as a function of experimentally manipulated densities from Schmitt et al. (1999).

Usage

data(DamselSettlement)
data(DamselRecruitment)
data(DamselRecruitment_sum)

Format

Three data frames:

site: settlement site (location)
pulse: monthly settlement pulse
obs: observation within pulse
density: density of settlers per 0.1 m2 anemone
area: anemone area in cm2
init: initial settler density
surv: surviving density after 6 months
settler.den: target experimental density of settlers on experimental anemones
surv.den: mean surviving density after 6 months, by target density
SE: standard error of survivor density, by target density

Source

Schmitt et al. (1999), "Quantifying the effects of multiple processes on local abundance", Ecology Letters 2:294-303. DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00086.x (Original data kindly provided by Schmitt and Holbrook.) The original version of this data set is available from the Moorea Coral Reef LTER data repository.

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